UNIT 5: Chapter Eleven - 5.3, Pgs. 282-287 Flashcards
First (Neolithic) Agricultural Revolution
The origin of farming. Marked the domestication of plants and animals. Subsistence farming.
Hunters and Gatherers
A member of a culture in which food is obtained by hunting, fishing, and foraging rather than by agriculture or animal husbandry
Animals Domestication
Central Asia, raised dogs and horses for protection, work, transportation, or as a food source. Southwest Asia, kept goats, pigs, sheep, and cattle. Then cats, horses, camels, donkeys, and llamas, along with others.
Plant Domestication
After the domestication of animals. Vegetative planting, parts of one plant to grow another. Planting seeds came later. Trade of crops, animals, and innovations.
Major Agricultural Hearths
Fertile Crescent, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica.
Independent Invention
Crops and animals being domesticated in multiple regions with seemingly no interaction among the people.
Columbian Exchange
The global movement of plants and animals between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas.